The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 49
Another sword he made, and Sigurd broke that too.
Who acts: sword, Sigurd · What happens: make, break · To what, where: that
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Sigurd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sword, Sigurd), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 sword | det |
| 2 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 broke | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 broke | cc |
| 7 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 broke | nsubj |
| 8 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 broke | obj |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 broke | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | another sword | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 2 | break | past | Sigurd | that | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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